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Indonesia awaits world quake aid
International rescue teams are heading to Indonesia in a last-ditch effort to free trapped earthquake survivors.
Experts from the UK, Australia and South Korea were en route to Sumatra, hit by a 7.6-magnitude quake two days ago. Others pledged emergency cash.
More than 1,000 people are already known to have died, the UN says, with thousands thought to remain trapped.
But one survivor was found on Friday: a young woman pulled, barely conscious, from within a collapsed school.
Collapsed school
As many as 3,000 people were still thought to be trapped under rubble in Padang and several other areas, Indonesia's disaster management agency told the Associated Press.
Overnight, workers rigged up floodlights and brought in a giant excavator as they tried to find students trapped beneath the collapsed three-storey school.
The Jakarta Post reported that 60 children were in the school when it collapsed.
One rescue team leader, known as Suria, said hope was fading for many of those still buried.
" We have pulled out 38 children since the quake. Some of them, on the first day, were still alive, but the last few have all been dead," she told the Reuters news agency.
Part of Padang's main hospital collapsed in the quake and a makeshift open air morgue has been set up to take the growing number of yellow body bags.
Operations were being performed in nearby white tents, doctors said.
" We have done hundreds of operations since the earthquake," said Dr Nofli Ichlas.
" Some broken bones, some with limbs completely cut off. Fractured skulls, abdominal trauma too."
International 'lifeline'
As the rescue efforts continued, Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari appealed for foreign aid to help the rescue effort.
There were calls in particular for skilled rescuers with specialised equipment to penetrate the unstable rubble.
" We need urgently electric cutters and medium-sized excavators to remove the debris," Red Cross official Febi Dwirahmadi, at the school, told AFP.
Elsewhere, teams worked at the site of the Ambacang Hotel, where as many as 100 people were thought to be trapped.